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Nokia E66 Reviews Analysis

Cellular phone with two digital cameras / digital player / FM radio / GPS receiver - WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM - white steel More product details

Nokia E66
alaSCORE 91

360 reviews

November, 2009

80 / 100

88 Experts

Product Age

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new

82 / 100

272 Users

What people think about the Nokia E66: (BETA!)

We compute this summary by analyzing 360 reviews from across the web.

price

4

  • High price
  • Price too high
  • Value for money
  • Great solid feel, Smooth slider, Brilliant display, Value for money
  • price
  • Slim, functions, price
 

LCD

3.5

  • Superfluous home-screen switch feature
  • Improve customisation of Home screen
  • Improve customisation of Home screen, not just shortcuts
  • Screen began to flicker/turn off within a week
  • Scratches on screen would be immediate
  • Automatic screen orientation
  • Accelerometer sensor for screen auto-rotation
  • Reasonable sized screen
  • nice screen
  • nice screen , wifi, every inch a classy smart phone
  • Screen breaks easily (a design flaw)
  • Good screen
  • Good screen, respiratory lights look very good, very humane sensor function
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interface

5

  • Finally an unbelievably user-friendly email set-up procedure and a neat move that cuts off the ringtone just by turning the phone face down on the table
  • Finally an unbelievably user-friendly email set-up procedure and a neat move that cuts off the ringtone just by turning the phone face down on the table, should keep city boys happy
  • interface speed
  • Usable improvements of the interface
  • Solid build and beautiful design, A very good display, Usable improvements of the interface
 
  • Slim and user friendly
  • nice interface
  • Good looking, nice interface, fast OS
  • Help user by its email support
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appearance

5

  • great look
  • Look
  • outward appearance
  • respiratory lights look very good
  • nice look
 

sound

1

  • Sound quality during a call could be better
  • Sound
  • Sound quality is not great
  • Clear sound and reception
 

battery

0.5

  • Smaller battery compared with the E71
  • Road warriors will scoff at the battery life: around three hours of talk time (con Bluetooth
  • Battery life is good
  • Battery life is good, but could be better
  • Smaller battery compared to E71
  • Great battery life
  • Smaller battery compared to E71, Accelerometer can be a nuisance
  • poor battery
  • Need to wipe the shiny body often due to smudges, Battery life greatly reduced as compared to my previous 3230
  • Battery only 1000mhz
  • Battery only 1000mhz, should be 1300mhz
  • Battery on Wifi is very bad
  • battery life should be same as e71 ^^
  • Company should give more powerful battery for this work horse
  • Smaller battery, but maybe, because I use it lot
  • the battery
  • just buy an extended battery~
  • but can be solved, just buy an extended battery~
  • just buy an extended battery
  • but can be solved, just buy an extended battery
  • Could have better battery life
  • weak battery life
  • Battery
  • Battery Life
  • poor battery life
  • poor battery performance
  • Poor battery life, sometimes restarts by itself
  • Poor battery life, filmsy phone
  • Low Battery Back up
  • Very Bulky, Low Battery Back up, Very slow in operation
  • Standby batteries in general
  • Standby batteries in general, highly contaminated fingerprint airframe
 
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keyboard

2.5

  • If you are a keen user of email you will miss a mini QWERTY keyboard
  • The bottom row of the keypad is unhandy to press
  • E series is not the traditional full-keyboard
  • If you want a ‘corporate’ phone without a QWERTY keyboard that can do everything short of ironing your jockeys
  • If you want a ‘corporate’ phone without a QWERTY keyboard that can do everything short of ironing your jockeys, then this is it
  • Comfortable keypad
  • good keypad
 

reception

0.5

  • Reception is just average (usually Nokia phones have very
  • very strong reception
  • Reception is just average (usually Nokia phones have very, very strong reception
  • reception quality
  • motion detection system
  • The expansion of good performance, motion detection system
 

connectivity

5

  • Saving settings for Wifi a bit fiddly
  • Biggest REAL BAD is the new proprietary USB connection and cable
  • 2.5mm jack instead of 3.5mm standard
  • 3G does not support US 3G/2100 connections in one device
  • no USB charging support
  • Wi-Fi and A-GPS
  • HSDPA, Wi-Fi and A-GPS
  • including 3G
  • Has complete support for US bands, including 3G
  • WiFi
  • Screen breaks easily (a design flaw), not a strong vibrator, very bad speaker-phone, 3G does not support US 3G/2100 connections in one device, no USB charging support, still FP1
  • 2.5mm audio port
  • Bluetooth
  • WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3G, FM radio, MP3 player and a 3 megapixel camera-- the phone has all
  • Web browsing is super-speedy courtesy of HSDPA and built-in Wi-Fi
  • Web browsing is super-speedy courtesy of HSDPA and built-in Wi-Fi, onboard GPS and Nokia 2.0 maps provide a competent satnav, while the sharp-focusing 3.2-megapixel camera is the same as the E71's
  • Wi-Fi
  • Design, switch mode feature, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, interface speed
  • HSDPA connectivity at 3.6 Mbit/s
  • Wi-Fi support
  • 3G support
  • 3G with HSDPA 3.6Mbps
  • Standard 2.5mm audio jack
  • Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
  • Metal Body, Powerful, Smooth & refined, Feature Pack 2, 3G, GPS with Nokia Maps, 2.5mm jack
  • Solid and attractive build, HSDPA, Wi-Fi and A-GPS, Excellent productivity tools
  • wifi and productivity and nifty business features
  • Great pps, wifi and productivity and nifty business features
  • Best in class connectivity options - WLAN
  • (3G)
  • Best in class connectivity options - WLAN, GPRS, EDGE, (3G), Bluetooth, Infrared, GPS
  • great audio output
  • wi fi
  • interface speed, switch mode feature, wi fi, solid and attractive build
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portability

5

  • It’s heavy
  • weight
  • At 13mm thin it’s more streamlined than previous E models
  • Nice form factor: thin enough to disappear in your pocket but large enough for a 2.5-inch screen
  • Small and compact dimensions
  • Compact body (62.6cc only
  • Slim slider than other nokia phones
 
  • Slim slider than other nokia phones ,great look
  • Looks/slim fits well in your pocket
  • Small and compact
  • Slim
  • Slim, great features
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size

5

  • it’s every bit the equal of its big brother - the E71
  • Physical size almost perfect to hold
 

performance

5

  • Networking seemed slow in our tests
  • Very slow in operation
  • High speed connectivity options
  • Impressive multimedia performance
  • Performance-wise
  • Performance-wise, it’s every bit the equal of its big brother - the E71
  • Upgraded processor runs S60 even more snappily than the N95 8GB
 
  • quick data transfer (bluetooth or cable)
  • Faster processing
  • fast connection
  • not costly, fast connection, simple yet very productive
  • fast OS
  • The expansion of good performance
  • Speed
  • Speed, multi-functional and practical
  • excillent performance
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memory

2

  • Impressive hardware design, lots of memory, and twin home screens
  • lots of memory
  • 110 MB of internal memory
  • 110 MB of internal memory, microSD expansion, ships with a 2GB card
 

voice guidance

1.5

  • absence of Voice Dialling (where I record the voice tags
  • absence of Voice Dialling (where I record the voice tags, not using the phones own V/D feature
 

menu

0.5

  • but that's down to the stainless steel trim
  • It’s heavy, but that's down to the stainless steel trim
  • native menu isn't as visually appealing as competing models
  • Questionable build quality of slider, native menu isn't as visually appealing as competing models
 

usability

5

  • Gets dirty by finger prints easy
  • The fuselage is extremely easy to contaminate the fingerprint
  • Nice use of the accelerometer for screen rotation and silencing the phone
  • Easy email set
  • Finger-friendly textured keys
  • Easy to use
  • simple yet very productive
 
  • Suitable for young business people to use
  • multi-functional and practical
  • support PDF n ofcie application
  • may feature, support PDF n ofcie application, 3G
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build quality

5

  • Questionable build quality of slider
  • Solid and attractive build
  • Classy design and build
  • with Vertu-level build quality
  • A magnificent piece of hardware, with Vertu-level build quality
  • Solid build and beautiful design
 
  • Dollar for dollar one of the most packed feature build phone built
  • Build quality
  • Build Quality, Internet access , Wifi
  • Superb build quality
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focus

5

  • 3 megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash
  • Business In Focus
  • Business In Focus, Slide Factor, Great Looks, Wifi, HSDPA
 

energy efficiency

0.5

  • Cheap-looking power key
 

image quality

5

  • High quality speakerphone
  • quality
  • Look, feel, quality
  • good call quality
  • call quality
 
  • Great battery life, great display, finishing, reception quality, call quality, Faster processing, Handling,
  • quality look
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design

5

  • And although that looks nice
  • And although that looks nice, it's smart shell is a fingerprint magnet
  • retro looking icons
  • Extremely attractive design and quite thin
  • Impressive hardware design
  • Design
  • classy design
  • Solid, classy design
 
  • looks great great smart phone
  • Great Looks
  • looks
  • Slim and sexy design
  • Sleek design with smart phone function
  • Good looks
  • Good looks, good specs
  • Good looking
  • stylish design
  • cool design
  • Shape the design is absolutely first-class
  • good design
  • Amazing Looks with Metal everywhere
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glare

5

  • Brilliant display
 

screen

4

  • Attention Finland: You're charging five Benjamins for a business device
  • A very good display
  • Good display size 2.4 with 16m colours
  • Display is sharp and bright
  • great display
 

color

5

  • Two-color choices work fine
 

remote control

0.5

  • uncomfortable to control with one hand
  • uncomfortable to control with one hand, poor battery performance
 

flash

3

  • xenon flash would be amazing but of course can't have everything
  • including flash
  • Excellent multimedia capabilities with support for a very large number of audio and video formats for playback, including flash, WMV and RealVideo
 

zoom

5

  • Recording can use the alias image zoom
  • The system response is rapid
  • The system response is rapid, the function is perfect
 

sensor

0.5

  • Swanky metal backplate gets hand-scaldingly hot
  • very humane sensor function
 

maps

5

  • GPS
  • onboard GPS and Nokia 2.0 maps provide a competent satnav
  • Built-in GPS receiver
  • A-GPS
  • Built-in GPS receiver, A-GPS
 
  • Nokia Maps comes with three months free turn-by-turn navigation license
  • Great GPS
  • nice form factor +gps in-a-phone
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product quality

5

  • finishing
 

resolution

2

  • Max Video resolution is not that great
  • 2.4" 16M-color display of QVGA resolution
 

video

5

  • Video recording maxes out at QVGA@15fps
  • Excellent multimedia capabilities with support for a very large number of audio and video formats for playback
  • Metal shape business video versatile in all arts Nokia E66 reviews to measure
 

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